The first announcement for this year's GHOU conference has been announced. Held in Garching, Germany, Aug. 1-7 (inclusive), the conference will also include a teacher training workshop. Details can be found in the announcement below:

Two girls from Victoria College, Belfast, have recovered a unique asteroid that is one of a very rare class of companions to the planet Mars. Christina Larkin and Catherine O'Prey remotely controlled the 2-metre Faulkes Telescope North on the island of Maui,Hawaii, during a week's work experience at the Armagh Observatory.